Linux-Hardware Digest #483, Volume #10 Sun, 13 Jun 99 15:13:58 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on a Mitac 5033 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Typhoon Radio Star under Linux (Sven Tennstedt)
Printer advice wanted (Tim T.)
Re: Why should I read this crap ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Phoenix Maxi Gamer X server... (Blonde Charles)
Re: Linux on a Mitac 5033 (Michael Treacy)
Sound card AWE64 and Caldera Openlinux2.2 ("Gored")
Re: multiple soundcards (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: linux memory size problems (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Help! Where is cardinfo? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Does one count TQFP chips? (Was: How do you know if you have a WinModem?) (Andrew
Comech)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems (John Hong)
How to disable printer...??? (Daniel in Oregon)
Re: Cirrus Logic AGP Locking up. Help? (Phillip Deackes)
Why should I read this crap ("Kalaznikov")
Re: Multi serial port on linux. ("Michael Faurot")
Re: Multi serial port on linux. (bryan)
Re: Celeron or PII? (bryan)
Re: How to disable printer...??? (David Fox)
Re: Figuring Out Used IRQ's? (Kenyon Ralph)
Re: Problem with Fritz Card!Classic in SuSE Linux 6.1 (Bernd Huebenett)
Re: Impact IQ, 'persist', line flipflop (Alec Marsh)
Color on an Epson 440 w/RedHat 5.2? ("John T. Dawid")
Wrong major or minor number???? (Daniel in Oregon)
Re: How to disable printer...??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Figuring Out Used IRQ's? (Kosh Banerjee)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on a Mitac 5033
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:54:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>If you want the XF86Config
Hint or tips here please I'm having problems with the X setup.
Dave
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From: Sven Tennstedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Typhoon Radio Star under Linux
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:09:54 +0200
Hi,
I have a Typhoon Radio Star (it�s a Radio ;o) ), it works at the serial
port. I think it must be easy to control it, because the sound is
looping through the soundcard and only the control commands comes over
the serial port.
But, I don�t know how it works!!!!
Who knows the control commands???? Heeellp, please? ;o)
Thanks
Sven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim T.)
Subject: Printer advice wanted
Date: 13 Jun 1999 13:40:52 GMT
After 8 years, my trusty HP portable 500 has finally given up the
ghost, so I find myself looking for a new printer, in rather more of a
hurry than I would like.
For some reason, the local stores only stock HP printers, with the
occasional Epson and Cannon mixed in. Looks like I'm stuk with HP
therefore.
At the moment, my corner store has an interesting offer on HP 695C
printers. Though I've looked at the Printing Howto website and
database, I've been unable to find any reference to this printer.
Has anybody got any experience of this printer, or does anybody have
any suggestions as to what would make a good, reliable, and above all
cheap printer ? Color would be nice, but is not, strictly speaking
essential.
Thanks in advance,
TimT.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Why should I read this crap
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:11:47 GMT
In his obvious haste, Kalaznikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: After reading this you start thinking why the F*** is that ignorant posting
: such irrelevant and stupified nonsense to this group. A better idea(and in
: correspondence with the idea of free source code) would be to release the
: info on the net, but of course then the ignorant would not make any money
: out of annoying us with his post.
What post?
: Just a wometing remark, I realise of course that this post will not make a
: difference as long as there are people willing to pay for such things.
Oh, was it the "marketting" spam?
It's no use complaining to the group about those.
It's not as if the luser actually READS the newsgroups he spams to.
(I'm in three other groups that saw it as well)
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From: Blonde Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Phoenix Maxi Gamer X server...
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:16:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Walton a �crit :
> Hi everyone...
>
> I recently installed RH onto a friends machine, but he has an oddball
> video card (wanted the best, didn't want to pay for it)! It's called the
> Phoenix Maxi Gamer...it is based on the 3dfx banshee chipset (128 bit I
> believe)...the manual docs are very weak...
>
> I got it running on a vga16 X server (looks awful...if you remember)...the
> SVGA server won't run properly on it either....is there an alternate X
> server that will be more compatible with this card?
>
> If so, we would both apprecitate it...
>
> Thanks
> -Ben Walton
I have a maxi gamer Phenix too and you can find the driver at
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html and it work fine.
Charles
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From: Michael Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a Mitac 5033
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:37:33 +0100
Dave,
Try here for a copy of the XF86Config.
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~krahmann/ams/ams15cta.html
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >If you want the XF86Config
>
> Hint or tips here please I'm having problems with the X setup.
>
> Dave
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From: "Gored" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card AWE64 and Caldera Openlinux2.2
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:05:53 +0200
Hi,
I'm new to linux and have been having trouble with my sound card .
I can not get it to work with my version of linux.
I use Caldera open linux 2.2 Linux kernal 2.2.5.
Everytime i want to load the sb module it keeps saying that the module can
not load.
I have looked on the HOW TO but found no remedie.
anyone out there that could help me please
Thanks,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multiple soundcards
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:23:33 +0200
toast wrote:
> Does anyone know of an easier/different way
> to do this? Is it possible?
I haven't tried it, but I think that ALSA is able to handle more than
one soundcard in Linux. http://alsa.jcu.cz
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux memory size problems
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:20:16 +0200
Andy wrote:
> I started out with 2 8M sticks in bank 0. Every thing worked
> fine installing and linux runs great. I noticed, though, that While
> Bios reports the correct ammount of memory, linux only sees 13520
> (K?).
> So I went about trying to get it to recognize my memory by putting
> "linux mem=16M" at the linux boot prompt. But whenever I do this the
> boot process croaks with a general protection fault
By appending mem=xxx you are able to fool Linux that it has more memory
than it really has. Sooner or later when linux is trying to use that
memory it is going to crash.
I would guess that the reason that some of your memory is unavaiable to
the OS is that your bios is using it for shadow ram.
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Help! Where is cardinfo?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 15:03:20 GMT
> I'm trying to get a Linksys Combo PCMCIA EthernetCard working in my
> Toshiba 2535 Satellite laptop. When I installed RH 6.0, I told it to
> install networking. However, I cannot seem to get the card working, even
> though it is listed as being supported.
>
Did you use the modules disk in addition to the boot disk? ie. you
need to load the pcmcia modules from the second of two installation
floppies.
> When I boot, it seems to know that networking is installed. I can find
> cardmgr and cardctl, but I cannot find cardinfo. It isn't with the
> others in /sbin. My PCMCIA modem works, so PCMCIA must be installed.
> I've searched for cardinfo but cannot find it. There is a manpage for
> it.
>
You need the Xforms stuff for cardinfo. IIRC RedHat does not include
it, and then you will need to compile card services yourself to get
cardinfo. FYI cs is up to 3.0.12, so you might as well upgrade in the
process.
> Also, there seems to be a problem with NFS. When I boot, it takes more
> than 5 minutes because it seems to be looking to connect or register
> NFS. I get an error 101 and repeated messages about RCP (or similar).
> How can I turn NFS off?
>
IMHO the new NFS implementation in RH6 is kind of fragile. It is not
behaving for me either.
rick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Does one count TQFP chips? (Was: How do you know if you have a WinModem?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jun 1999 12:59:24 -0500
I am curious about the following information which I found on
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_pc.htm --
: 3. Internal Host Controlled (a.k.a. Controller-Less) Modem
: (identification: requires Windows 95/98, but not Pentium-MMX)
: ...
: + these only plug into your PCI slot (the 33 MHz PCI bus speed is
: necessary in order for your microprocessor to be able to
: replace the missing controller chip)
: + they usually have 2-3 large TQFP (thin quad flat pack) chips on
: the modem printed circuit board
:
:
: 4. Internal SoftModem (identification: requires Windows 95/98 and
: Pentium-MMX)
: ...
: + these only plug into your PCI slot and usually have only 1
: large TQFP (thin quad flat pack) chip on the modem printed
: circuit board
These are certainly lies that those things are available on PCI bus only
(otherwise the life would be too easy to be interesting), as well
as some other statements (I did not quite get the "53000 bits / 10 = 5300
bytes" arithmetics..).
I wonder, though, whether counting the chips on the board leads to
the correct diagnosis of a modem. I'd guess that a non-hardware modem
would look less sophisticated, like an el-cheapo videocard.
Does anybody know?
Thanks,
a.
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 15:49:56 GMT, Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>Another good way to determine if your modem is a "winmodem" is to boot
>up to dos (not dos inside windows), then try some sort of dos
>internet program, or something that uses the modem in dos (you might
>have to download something). If the modem works under "pure" dos,
>it's not a Winmodem.
Actually, one could as well test a modem from Linux, huh?
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http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:51:01 GMT
Mike Frisch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >use the uniprint drivers. No, the colors aren't right but they aren't
: >wrong enough for me to bother, either. I print more technical diagrams
: >than photographs so color accuracy isn't paramount to me.
: They're not totally incorrect, I agree, but when I print in Windows, they
: look fine. The behaviour with Ghostscript should be at least identical.
Of course they will look fine under Windows...the manufactorer
made the drivers for it.
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From: Daniel in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to disable printer...???
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 09:44:15 -0700
I need to disable lp0....so I can use it for my paride drive...
Whenever I try to mount my epat...paride thiingie...it says device is
busy...
I know it's because the printer has it....how to disable please...???
Thanks ........
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes)
Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic AGP Locking up. Help?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 15:59:06 GMT
In article <c8a83.4$Hv5.57692@WCG-Reader>, Phillip A. Ryals wrote:
>I just installed RH6.0 on my system and It's locking up so hard that I have
>to physically switch it off. I know it has something to do with the video
>card, but I'm not sure what to do.
>
>I have a Cirrus Logic AGP card on an AMD K-2 400. Basically, it's
>recognized during installation and setup installs XFree86-SVGA, everything
>works for a couple minutes, and then it locks up. It's running at
>1024x768x24. Incidentally, setup set the default color depth to 32 bit.
>When I set it to 24, it seemed like it took longer to actually lock.
I installed RedHat 5.2 for a friend last week and we had exactly the
same problem. They had an Intel Pentium II CPU. I suspected the
graphics card (also a Cirrus Logic AGP) and fitted an ATI Xpert@Work
instead. The result was completely successful. The ATI is very
cheap at the moment.
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From: "Kalaznikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why should I read this crap
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:51:39 +0200
After reading this you start thinking why the F*** is that ignorant posting
such irrelevant and stupified nonsense to this group. A better idea(and in
correspondence with the idea of free source code) would be to release the
info on the net, but of course then the ignorant would not make any money
out of annoying us with his post.
Just a wometing remark, I realise of course that this post will not make a
difference as long as there are people willing to pay for such things.
Now lets start cruising those linux postings instead...
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multi serial port on linux.
Date: 13 Jun 1999 14:34:42 GMT
B'ichela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <7jvad9$bpi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Faurot wrote:
:>
:>I've been using an 8-port Cyclades since kernel v1.2.13 and it's
:>performed well. I believe Cyclades makes 16port cards also.
:>Cyclades cards also enjoy direct driver support in the existing
:>kernels.
: Where can I get these cards? BEst I have found through Dalco is 4
: port cards. WEb addresses/phone numbers of dealers would be greatly
: appreciated.
http://www.cyclades.com
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multi serial port on linux.
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:09:05 GMT
B'ichela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <7jvad9$bpi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Faurot wrote:
: >Karim El Founas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >: Hello, I'm searching for a multi-port IO card to have up to 16 RS232
: >: serial port on a PC Intel.
: >
: >: I've found the Intelliport (4 or 8 port by card) from Computone but the
: >: dirvers for Linux are in beta version.
: >
: >I've been using an 8-port Cyclades since kernel v1.2.13 and it's
: >performed well. I believe Cyclades makes 16port cards also.
: >Cyclades cards also enjoy direct driver support in the existing
: >kernels.
: Where can I get these cards? BEst I have found through Dalco is 4
: port cards. WEb addresses/phone numbers of dealers would be greatly
: appreciated.
: --
I have 3 spare cyclades cards I'm not using. they're 8port ISA cards
and take 1 irq for the whole board.
anti-spam email is below.
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:06:55 GMT
Suran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: bryan wrote:
: >
: > Mohd H Misnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > : On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:38:17 GMT, bryan wrote:
: > : >in fact, just the opposite, imho. its known that linux heats cpu's up
: > : >less when the system isn't running at full 100% util. linux executes
: > : >the HALT instr which saves energy. 'doze, otoh, is ALWAYS in a busy
: > : >loop and generates more heat just doing nothing (being idle).
: >
: > : There're few utilities out there which do the above, one is called RAIN.
: >
: > I just heard about 'rain', recently. its interesting that a third
: > party ends up releasing an OS patch that enables such a basic property of an
: > OS, yet wasn't ever there in any shipping version ;-)
: Wrong! NT does it.
did I mention NT? I was referring to 9x. oh, I said 'doze - maybe
you didn't know that that refers to 'windows' ;-)
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: How to disable printer...???
Date: 13 Jun 1999 10:26:51 -0700
Daniel in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to disable lp0....so I can use it for my paride drive...
>
>
> Whenever I try to mount my epat...paride thiingie...it says device is
> busy...
>
> I know it's because the printer has it....how to disable please...???
"rpm -e lpr" should do it.
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UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenyon Ralph)
Subject: Re: Figuring Out Used IRQ's?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:00:10 GMT
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:34:42 GMT, Kosh Banerjee wrote:
> I have an old IBM Valuepoint 486. I need to figure out which interrupts
> are currently being used. Is there a way to do this?
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:10:19 +0200
From: Bernd Huebenett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with Fritz Card!Classic in SuSE Linux 6.1
Hello Mark,
i am using the same stuff without problems.
Can you get a connection to the Suse test server ??
Does I4L load correctly ??
Regards,
Bernd
Mark Kliegl wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with going online in Linux!
> I configured my ISDN card correctly and typed in the correct login
> information but it always closes the connection!
> Could somebody tell me what the problem is?
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From: Alec Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Impact IQ, 'persist', line flipflop
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:10:08 -0500
Clifton T. Sharp Jr. wrote:
> A friend has been using his 3com Impact IQ (3C882) successfully for some
> time now. However, he gets the odd disconnect and his system doesn't auto-
> reconnect. I told him about the 'persist' option and made him happy...
>
> ... until he found that if he uses 'persist', the 3C882 will switch from
> one line to the other for the data call. Since he wants to keep one of
> the two B channels clear for voice at all times, this is unacceptable.
> I can't find anything in any documentation anywhere that suggests this
> behavior, much less tells it to stop. I can't even find anything in the
> 3C882 docs that suggest you can select which B channel is used. Clues?
I'm the friend; still no ideas. Anyone?
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From: "John T. Dawid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Color on an Epson 440 w/RedHat 5.2?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:10:55 -0500
Hi folks!
I recently bought an Epson 440 Color Stylus printer to
replace a deceased HP 682c. Has anyone been able to
successsfully print color with the Epson 440? I've seen
references to use the "stcolor" option, but everything I try
doesn't work. It can print grayscale ok, but not color.
I'm running Red Hat 5.2.
Any help with this, i.e. what do I need to plug in to
Control Panel Printer Configuration, or /etc/printcap would
be greatly appreciated. I'm still somewhat of a newbie, but
am learning fast. So far I have Sybase ASE going, as well
as a small network using a Linksys 5 port hub. I rather
like this Linux stuff!
Thanks,
John
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From: Daniel in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wrong major or minor number????
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:01:11 -0700
When I try to mount my paride device....pda..........I get the message
"mount: /dev/pda has wrong major or minor number "
what does that mean....???and how do I change it?
I'm trying to mount my Syquest Syjet...........since with my new
kernel...2.5.5-15...the old
epst.c driver won't compile....
Any help would be appreciated...
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to disable printer...???
Date: 13 Jun 1999 17:50:56 GMT
In his obvious haste, David Fox <d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u> babbled
thusly:
: Daniel in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> I need to disable lp0....so I can use it for my paride drive...
:>
:>
:> Whenever I try to mount my epat...paride thiingie...it says device is
:> busy...
:>
:> I know it's because the printer has it....how to disable please...???
: "rpm -e lpr" should do it.
Or, killall lpr would disable it temporarily without uninstalling the
software. Then perhaps he could redirect it to the parallel post where most
printers these days go.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kosh Banerjee)
Subject: Figuring Out Used IRQ's?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:34:42 GMT
I have an old IBM Valuepoint 486. I need to figure out which interrupts are
currently being used. Is there a way to do this? If any of this matters,
here's my set up:
Red Hat 5.2
2 IDE hard drives
1 IDE CD-ROM drive
1 3.5" floppy
1 SoundBlaster
1 US Robotics modem
and of course, 1 keyboard and 1 mouse
I am trying to properly configure a Linksys Ether16 LAN card.
Thanks.
K. Banerjee
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